Mammals

1st Award  MontPhoto Honor Award

I took this photo of a female Western roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in winter in Hungary. You can find them everywere, in forests, fields, meadows. In some areas, the national park rangers put out some food for them. They come here to feed. I took this photo from a hide where I spent a lot of nights inside waiting for the deers. I tried to make some intresting photo by using long expusure. It is not easy because the animals do not stop moving as you would like.

Several African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) congregate during the dry season at this waterhole. One particular bull is quite a character, with a broken left tusk and a flopping left ear. He is very dominant and pretty much every other bull gives way; he drinks first. This image conveys the hierarchy at the waterhole, and a lower ranked bull can be spotted by looking under the belly of a bull slightly closer to the water.

Single exposure. Outside it is freezing cold winter, but the 10 degrees celsius and the most environment of the mine attracts animals. Lesser horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros) wintering in an abandoned iron ore mine in Börzsöny mountains. Researcher have pointed out that the Lesser horseshoe bats also move in winter, meaning their strategy differs from othe bats. This behavior is amazing.

Late in the evening and mist developing through yellow trees was really dramatic landscape in Nakuru national park. With all those elements, that leopard (Panthera pardus) on a tree branch was a breath taking image. He was resting there for longer period and suddenly heard a noise from down and got up to jump. But finally nothing happened and went to rest again. I photograph him for about 30 minutes.

The image of these Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) was taken in the evening safari in Nature Conservancy, Kenya. I tried to use the combination of light and dust in a creative way to make a picture with dramatic visualisation.

In the month of June I often go to the Gran Paradiso Park. The snow begins to melt and the animals search for food. One day I saw a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) coming down the mountain

A blue morph Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus fuliginosus) battled its way through a blizzard on the snowy hills of Hornstrandir Nature Reserve in Iceland. Barely opening its eyes, the fox slowly made its way towards me, braving the freezing temperatures and gale-force winds.